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Wayne O'Connor named Chief Operating Officer of Emera Energy Services
HALIFAX, April 25 /CNW/ - (TSX: EMA) - Chris Huskilson, President and Chief Executive Officer of ...
About this update from Emera Incorporated
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nHALIFAX, April 25 /CNW/ - (TSX: EMA) - Chris Huskilson, President and\nChief Executive Officer of Emera Inc, announced today that Wayne O'Connor, has\nbeen appointed Chief Operating Officer of Emera Energy Services.\n\n\n"I am pleased to be leading Emera Energy into the next phase of its\ngrowth and development," said O'Connor. "Our team has built a strong business\nin Maritime Canada and New England over the past 5 years. Now there are new\nopportunities, like the arrival of LNG to the region, and new markets to\ndevelop, in Ontario and the northeast US. I am excited by the prospects for\nour business, and look forward to the challenge of turning opportunity into\nsuccess."\n\n\nEmera Energy and its clients benefit from O'Connor's comprehensive\nknowledge of electricity and gas markets, derivatives, and risk management\ntechniques.\n\n\nO'Connor takes over from previous Chief Operating Officer, Todd Sattler\nwho left the COO role earlier this month.\n\n\nAbout Emera\n\n\nEmera Inc. (EMA-TSX) is an energy and services company with $4.2 billion\nin assets. Electricity is Emera's core business. The company has two\nwholly-owned regulated electric utility subsidiaries, Nova Scotia Power Inc.\nand Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, which together serve 600,000 customers.\nEmera also owns 19% of St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited, which serves\nmore than 50,000 customers on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia . In addition\nto its electric utility investments, Emera has a joint venture interest in\nBear Swamp, a 600 megawatt pumped storage hydro-electric facility in northern\nMassachusetts; a 12.9% interest in the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline; a 7.4%\ninterest in Open Hydro and Emera Energy Services which manages energy assets\non behalf of third parties. Visit Emera on the web at www.emera.com .\n\n\n","length":1902,"tagName":"div"}]